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MINISTER FOR HEALTH Simon Harris has been accused of letting legislation to introduce protest exclusion zones around maternity hospitals fall off the government’s agenda.
Pro-life protesters staged a demonstration with three white child-size coffins outside the National Maternity Hospital last weekend. This group is planning to return this Saturday.
Exclusion zones were not included in the legislation for abortion which was passed last December as the Department of Health said a number of legal issues were identified with proposals during the drafting process.
However, the minister said in February this year that the government aimed to have draft legislation prepared by summer.
He described the recent protest as “grossly insensitive” and said it can not be “tolerated or accepted”.
The minister said proposals on safe access for women to maternity hospitals have “taken far longer than I expected” but that he hopes to have them “shortly”. He said he wanted to assure women and healthcare staff that there is existing legislation in place to protect them.
Labour Senator Ivana Bacik has accused the minister of allowing the issue to “fall off the agenda”.
She said women accessing healthcare have now been left to deal with the fallout.
“Nobody should be shamed or judged while entering a GP’s surgery. Nobody should have to see the images and props used by these groups as they leave a maternity hospital,” she said.
“Exclusion zones restricting protests which obstruct access to abortion services are in effect already in other countries, including parts of Canada, Australia, and the US.
“The law providing for access to abortion services is not enough, we must ensure that women have safe access too.”
Fine Gael Senator Catherine Noone today said she will be seeking exclusion zones “as an absolute priority” in the new Dáil term.
She said the actions of the group outside the National Maternity Hospital “remind us once again of the urgent need” for this legislation, which “should have been passed by now”.
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You know many people believed the moon landing was faked, great achievements will always be doubted
@Vinegar Feet: From your link:
• Primary efficacy analysis demonstrates BNT162b2 to be 95% effective against COVID-19 beginning 28 days after the first dose;170 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were evaluated, with 162 observed in the placebo group versus 8 in the vaccine group
• Efficacy was consistent across age, gender, race and ethnicity demographics; observed efficacy in adults over 65 years of age was over 94%
• Safety data milestone required by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) has been achieved
• Data demonstrate vaccine was well tolerated across all populations with over 43,000 participants enrolled; no serious safety concerns observed; the only Grade 3 adverse event greater than 2% in frequency • Companies plan to submit within days to the FDA for EUA and share data with other regulatory agencies around the globe
• The companies expect to produce globally up to 50 million vaccine doses in 2020 and up to 1.3 billion doses by the end of 2021
• Pfizer is confident in its vast experience, expertise and existing cold-chain infrastructure to distribute the vaccine around the world
@Vinegar Feet: What is that quote supposed to ‘prove’? Completely lost as to where you’re going with that
@Winston Smith: what moon landing??
What’s the option take a vaccine or live like this for years .
Personally I’d rather take my chances with a vaccine and return to some sort of normality .
@Michael Mcloughlin: agreed
@donny12345: I second that
Yeah let the Brits get the first doses and we’ll see how they get on
Delete comment, delete comment, delete comment…. ohh your comments ok it agrees with us, delete… busy morning at the Journal
@Opinionated: comments closed works quicker when they don’t approve of majority of comments
@Opinionated: I got banned from here account was restricted for 2 months why I don’t know
@Opinionated: Vaccine good, government funded main stream media good, any other opinion bad.
@SB79: probably because you dont support their narrative of constant fear fear fear and daily dose of Covid articles
@Opinionated: The removal of disinformation is important. It’s got nothing to do with opinions.
They have been working on it for years,preparing for the release of the virus…..
@Gerry Campbell: yep all planned by the lizard people
Snake oil salesman.
@Peter Coen: The article is a bit disingenuous. How can they tell the long term effects of a vaccine in 10 months? Regulators have decided to accept this small risk as the upside to a vaccine is huge
@Mickety Dee: 10 months?
The Phase 3 clinical trial of BNT162b2 began on July 27 and has enrolled 43,538 participants to date, 38,955 of whom have received a second dose of the vaccine candidate as of November 8, 2020.
No thanks
@James: I will gladly take your place, bring it on
@James: Natural selection will surely thin out global anti-vaxx numbers over the next year
@Steve: I hope so
@James: bye Felicia !
I assume governments will have to indemnify this release ? Also can’t find any material safety data on severe/mild side effects encountered in trials if anyone has a link ?
@Mark: no such thing as side effects..its just wording…direct effects they didn’t want or expect
@Mark: “To date, the Data Monitoring Committee for the study has not reported any serious safety concerns related to the vaccine. A review of unblinded reactogenicity data from the final analysis which consisted of a randomized subset of at least 8,000 participants 18 years and older in the phase 2/3 study demonstrates that the vaccine was well tolerated, with most solicited adverse events resolving shortly after vaccination. The only Grade 3 (severe) solicited adverse events greater than or equal to 2% in frequency after the first or second dose was fatigue at 3.8% and headache at 2.0% following dose 2. Consistent with earlier shared results, older adults tended to report fewer and milder solicited adverse events following vaccination.”
@Christopher Conlan: Perfect ! Thanks for this.
@Mark: if you are sufficiently qualified in a relevant area of expertise to understand the data you’re looking for then I assume you know where to get it.
@Sara Davis: Trust me Sara, I’m infinitely more qualified than yourself.
Why isn’t the headline “Why hasn’t EU been able to evaluate the data as quickly as the U.K.?”
Money talks
Boeing 737 Max comes to mind. Let’s just hope that all is in order and that the rush for huge profits, to secure population immunity and economic recovery has not blinded the regulators to adverse side-effects small print. Time will tell and good luck to those receiving the first batches.
Well to coin a Clichy..
” your dammed if you do & dammed if you don’t “
It’s approved so quickly because of Brexit. Suppose that’s one good thing about it
Here is another good explainer for you – anyone with half an active brain cell on duty will refuse to take a covid vaccine. The Irish government announced yesterday they will grant indemnity to the vaccine companies – meaning – any adverse effects – of which there will be thousands upon thousands will be paid off to the victims by the state, and the companies putting their names to this monstrosity will carry on regardless
@Martin Mason: I suppose Holohan would be delighted to be the one signing off on it. “This won’t be my first vaccine scandal…”
@Martin Mason: your Twitter is nothing short of hilarious
@Pseud O’Nym: Why is that. Do I detect a brain washed=sheep
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